Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 23:50:29 -0400 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: Craig Reyenga <craig@craig.afraid.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers Message-ID: <20030610035029.GA5213@online.fr> In-Reply-To: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball>
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Craig Reyenda wrote: > I was just wondering what people think of changing the FreeBSD release > numbering system. Here is my idea: > > -FreeBSD 4.X is stable right now. > -FreeBSD 5.0,5.1(maybe 5.2) are not-so-stable. > -FreeBSD 5.3 is supposed to be. > > Perhaps all odd major numbers should be considered development versions. 5.3 > would instead be called 6.0, I think you're thinking of the linux system. It won't actually solve anything. One reason FreeBSD 5.0 and 5.1 are not too stable (apart from the ambitious changes in 5-CURRENT) is that they haven't had enough realworld exposure; if you declare that they're a "development release", you'll only postpone the wide exposure to 6.0, which will then have the same problems. Linux suffers from this too, only more so. It took until 2.4.10 or so for the 2.4 kernel series to start to become stable -- FreeBSD normally "gets there" by the x.1 or x.2 release. Linus is already talking of releasing a 2.6.0-test series, when 2.5 is clearly nowhere near ready yet, simply because more people will test it that way. Rahul
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